Grandma's Baking Powder Biscuits

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons white sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon cream of tartar

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup vegetable shortening

1egg

⅔ cup milk

Directions

Step 1

Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).

Step 2

Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt into a bowl. Use a pastry cutter to chop vegetable shortening into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Whisk egg and milk together in a separate bowl and slowly add milk mixture to flour mixture, stirring as you pour, until dough is moistened and well-mixed. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until biscuits have risen and are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.

Cook's Note:

You can place dough on a floured countertop and knead more flour into dough until it no longer sticks to your fingers. Pat out to desired thickness. Cut with a biscuit cutter and transfer biscuits to an ungreased cookie sheet.

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